Hindsight Quotes - Page 6

• Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances, and we, each of us, have a responsibility (if we do not like where we are) to move along life's road, to find a better path if this one does not suit, or to walk happily along this one if it is indeed our life's way. Changing even the bad things that have gone before would fundamentally change who we are, and whether or not that would be a good thing, I believe, it is impossible to predict. So I take my past experiences... and try to regret nothing. -Drizzt Do'urden

  R. A. Salvatore

  Regret, Believe, Moving

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• My mother used to dress rather risqué when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms were supposed to wear cardigans and flats, but she was in leather bracelets and minidresses. In hindsight, I thought it was pretty cool, but I'm probably more conservative because of it.

  Drew Barrymore

  Mom, Mother, Kids

  "The Tao Of Drew" by Alexandra Jacobs, www.elle.com. September 18, 2006.

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• I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in The Leopard, in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. Phantom has less blood.

  Jo Nesbo

  Couple, Regret, Blood

  "Jo Nesbø: 'I am a vulture'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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• Another Quarter Pounder sometimes seems like a good idea- but I always regret later. Only in hindsight do we see how God would not let us settle for our well-intentioned but limited desires, but called us- sometimes weeping and kicking- to something more enduring and satisfying.

  Christopher Ruddy

  Regret, Ideas, Desire

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• It's a bit counter-intuitive to think about the future in terms of the past. But...I've learned an important trick: to develop foresight, you need to practice hindsight. Technologies, cultures, and climates may change, but our basic human needs and desires - to survive, to care for our families, and to lead happy, purposeful lives - remain the same.' p 5

  Jane McGonigal

  Thinking, Past, Technology

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• To me the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.

  Julia Leigh

  Inspiration, Exercise, Thinking

  "Julia Leigh – Writer/Director of Sleeping Beauty". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 2, 2011.

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• Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.

  Ted Yoho

  Names, Cliffs, Parenthood

  "Upset winner isn't horsing around" by Kate Nocera, www.politico.com. August 26, 2012.

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• When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go, 'Oh, liked it because of this.' Maybe it's just the wheel.

  Michael Fassbender

  Car, Doe, Four

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• The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.

  Gerry Cooney

  Kings, Mistake, Fighting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.

  Robert Teeter

  Leadership, Thinking, Perception

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• I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.

  Ratan Tata

  Taken, Thinking, People

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• As changes take place in my life, I continue to watch them truly work out for my good-if I can just wait on God to see me through. What makes all the difference is trust-the understanding that God has a much bigger plan than mine even if I don't understand it. I'm grateful, yet sorry, that I have had to learn so many lessons by hindsight.

  Kathy Troccoli

  Change, Sorry, Grateful

  Kathy Troccoli (1997). “My Life Is in Your Hands: Devotions to Help You Fall More Deeply in Love With Jesus”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your head, it's probably going to stay there.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Ideas, Fake, Causality

  "We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, lesswrong.com. October 3, 2007.

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• I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.

  Paloma Faith

  Looks, Emotion, Stay True

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• You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Years, Long, Done

  "Harry Connick Jr. On Dolphins, New Orleans And His Marriage Secret". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 19, 2011.

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• It's rather an exhilarating feeling. It's 6 or 7 when you get up and go out into the fields wearing your Wellingtons or high boots. You know that at this very hour half the nation does the same thing, which gives you, with the benefit of hindsight, a satisfaction in doing those things, too, a knowledge, a sense of the nation. I was a city boy until then.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Boys, Cities, Exhilarating Feeling

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• I'm defining [presidential courage] pretty narrowly. It's not only taking a big political risk but it's also the risk that in the hindsight of history, people think it's wise.

  Michael Beschloss

  Wise, Thinking, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I believe in love in hindsight, meaning attraction and connection can be remembered as love at first sight. But how could you possibly know at first sight? That's too much pressure to put on a relationship.

  Greg Behrendt

  Believe, Sight, Connections

  "The Author Of 'He's Just Not That Into You' Saves Your Sex Life". Interview with Jessica Sager, www.yourtango.com. August 23, 2013.

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• At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. (225)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Decision, Quests, Obscure

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• No. Real love takes time to build. What you feel is just infatuation. (Geary) But it doesn’t feel temporary. (Arik) It never does at its onset. It’s only in hindsight that we realize the difference between infatuation and love. (Geary)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Real, Differences, And Love

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• We talked about it. An assistant coach suggested fouling, but I rejected it because I was afraid we'd foul them shooting and get beat that way. Hindsight couldn't have been worse than what happened to us.

  John Whisenant

  Rejection, Shooting, Assistants

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• why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?

  Bernhard Schlink

  Beautiful, Dark, Doe

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.37, Vintage

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• Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?

  Bernhard Schlink

  Beautiful, Pain, Memories

  FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Dec 31, 2013

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• Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Awful, Figures

  Jeannette Walls (2010). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• It's very easy for some men and in some cases women to sit back and say with 20-20 hindsight, "Tsk-tsk, should have done more." But it doesn't account for the reality.

  Megyn Kelly

  Reality, Men, Should Have

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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